Creative Leadership and Innovative Management


Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

 
  • Describe the link between good leadership and creativity and innovation
  • Apply self-awareness techniques in preparing for unleashing the natural creative inclination
  • Teach, guide and support others in developing the needed self-awareness for creativity
  • Build the right environment that nurtures and fosters creativity and innovation in others
  • Use different tools and techniques to generate creative and innovative ideas
Course Outline

  • Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership
    • What is leadership
    • Types of leadership in the business world
    • Authentic leadership
    • Misperceptions of leadership
    • Defining innovation and creativity
    • Intelligence versus creativity
    • Understanding the 2 hemispheres of the brain
      • Right and left
    • Lateral thinking
  • Stimulate your creative brain 
    • Understanding your ego and emotional responses
    • Emotional reactions based on protection
      • Childhood experiences
      • Societal and cultural programing
    • Understanding emotions
    • The impact of habit on acting and thinking
      • Harnessing the power of habit
    • Vertical development
      • Horizontal development
      • Stages of vertical development
    • Self-leadership / identity leadership
      • Leaders produce leaders
  • Fostering creativity in team members
    • The right team member selection
    • Happiness as a driver of creativity
      • Positivity and gratitude
      • Thoughts and the need to control thoughts
      • The difference between the real I and my thoughts
      • Cultural restrictions
      • Others influences
    • The principal of coaching in driving creativity and innovation
    • Resistance to change
      • Understanding change
      • Taming the internal resistance to change
    • Innovation leadership characteristics
  • The right environment for creativity and innovation
    • Setting the right environment
    • Fear as an inhibitor of creativity
      • Capitalizing on mistakes and failures
    • The importance of understanding employees
      • Enhancing employees’ creativity and innovation
        • Employee maturity
        • Customizing your approach
  • Creativity and innovation tools
    • Facilitating brainstorming
    • Process review matrix
    • Lateral thinking
    • Random stimulation techniques
    • The four thinking styles
  • Presenting and Getting Support for your new ideas
    • Assessing and refining innovative Ideas
      • Cost benefit and risk analysis
    • Anticipating objections
    • Influencing decision makers by making a business case

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